In the previous post, we peeked at the two different data flows in Azure Data Factory, then created a basic mapping data flow. In this post, we will look at orchestrating pipelines using branching, chaining, and the execute pipeline activity.
Let’s continue where we left off in the previous post. How do we wire up our solution and make it look something like this?

We need to make sure that we get the data before we can transform that data.
One way to build this solution is to create a single pipeline with a copy data activity followed by a data flow activity. But! Since we have already created two separate pipelines, and this post is about orchestrating pipelines, let’s go with the second option :D
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